# Dromacoosh, Co. Kerry: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilgarvan, barony of Glanarought, Co. Kerry; in Irish Drom an Chuais. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,418,695 m² (241.87 ha, 597.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 59,521 m² (5.95 ha, 14.71 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilgarvan, https://everytownland.com/kerry/parish/kilgarvan.md - Barony: Glanarought - Electoral division: Kilgarvan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 788 people lived in 310 households in the Kilgarvan electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Kerry, https://everytownland.com/kerry.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/23078 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 71129 - Centre: latitude 51.945809, longitude -9.373792 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromacoosh, from 4,494 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres) to 2,263,626 m² (226.36 ha, 559.35 acres); 6 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1225814: 2,263,626 m² (226.36 ha, 559.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1225814.md - Parcel 1138377: 111,708 m² (11.17 ha, 27.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1138377.md - Parcel 1208835: 7,334 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1208835.md - Parcel 1187732: 4,494 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1187732.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Dromacoosh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 1 Sept 2026, Kerry County Council 2660826: N/a. Permission. For the extension of the operational duration of the existing Kilgarvan Phase II Wind Farm and associated infrastructure (as permitted in Kerry County Council Planning Refs. 07/1605, 07/4364, 03/2508 [ABP Ref: 08.209629], 07/4515, 07/4701) for an additional 15 years from the date of expiry of its current operational duration. The existing renewable energy development comprises: (i) 13 no. existing and operational wind turbines, with a tip height of 125 m and hub height of 80m; (ii) Associated turbine foundations and crane hardstandings; (iii) 8.34 km of existing access tracks; and (iv) Existing, operational site drainage infrastructure and associated infrastructure. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KerryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660826/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC, site code 000365, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000365 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment, site code 000365 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dromacoosh. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dromacoosh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Dromacoosh, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dromacoosh. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromacoosh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromacoosh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromacoosh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Dromacoosh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry: https://everytownland.com/kerry.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cappanlivane: https://everytownland.com/kerry/cappanlivane.md - Curraglass North: https://everytownland.com/kerry/curraglass-north.md - Curraglass South: https://everytownland.com/kerry/curraglass-south.md - Freaghanagh: https://everytownland.com/kerry/freaghanagh.md - Inchincoosh: https://everytownland.com/kerry/inchincoosh.md - Redtrench North: https://everytownland.com/kerry/redtrench-north.md - Rossacroonaloo: https://everytownland.com/kerry/rossacroonaloo.md A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/kerry/dromacoosh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kerry/dromacoosh